Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti

Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti (1940-) was a general of Ba'athist Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War and Iraq War.

Biography
Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti was born in 1940 in Tikrit, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family. al-Tikriti joined the Iraqi Army in 1962, serving in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War before being promoted to an officer's rank. In the al-Anfal Campaign against the Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War, al-Tikriti served as Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Iraqi Army and was involved in war crimes against Kurdish civilians, and in 1991 he also took part in atrocities against Shia rebels. al-Tikriti was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for his war crimes, and his death sentence for war crimes was commuted, as he was only following orders.